Sex and the Citizen is a multidisciplinary                  collection of essays that draws on current anxieties about "legitimate"                  sexual identities and practices across the Caribbean to explore both the impact of                  globalization and the legacy of the region’s history of sexual exploitation                  during colonialism, slavery, and indentureship. Speaking from within but also                  challenging the assumptions of feminism, literary and cultural studies, and queer                  studies, this volume questions prevailing oppositions between the backward,                  homophobic nation-state and the laid-back, service-with-a-smile                  paradise or between giving in ignominiously to the autocratic demands of the global                  north and equating postcolonial sovereignty with a "wholesome"                  heterosexual citizenry.The contributors use parliamentary                  legislation, novels, film, and other texts to examine Martinique’s                  relationship to France; the diasporic relationships between the Dominican Republic                  and New York City, between India and Trinidad, and between Mexico’s capital                  city and its Caribbean coast; "indigenous" names for sexual practices and                  desires in Suriname and the Eastern Caribbean; and other topics. This volume will                  appeal to readers interested in how sex has become an important register for                  considerations of citizenship, personal and political autonomy, and identity in the                  Caribbean and the global south. Contributors:                  Vanessa Agard-Jones * Odile Cazenave * Michelle Cliff * Susan Dayal                  * Alison Donnell * Donette Francis * Carmen Gillespie* Rosamond S.                  King * Antonia MacDonald-Smythe * Tejaswini Niranjana * Evelyn                  O’Callaghan * Tracy Robinson * Patricia Saunders * Yasmin Tambiah                  * Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley * Rinaldo Walcott * M. S.                  Worrell

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